What this is meant to evoke is not clear, as the same move occurs in supposedly happy and sad moments.
If your only contact with Portuguese culture were via fadistas like Ms. Branco or the Mozambique-born Mariza, you might consider the Portuguese unduly obsessed with how sad you supposedly think they are.
"This is sad because supposedly this pope is more enlightened and more progressive.
Using a headset microphone, she proceeded to point out where the singer Avril Lavigne "got beaten up in a street fight" (the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel), where Jennifer Lopez supposedly goes for margaritas (a sad country bar on the Sunset Strip) and Chateau Marmont, identified as the hotel where Josh Hartnett was staying when he called 911 to complain of severe diarrhea.
The sad part is that the supposedly clean Rodriguez was the great hope to surpass accused steroid user Barry Bonds as a home run hitter, thus giving baseball a purer image at the peak of performance.
Those who have money might still be able to sip foreign beers, but the saddest aspect of nationalistic and supposedly pro-working class sanctions in Russia is that they hit mainly poor people.
"It is a sad day for Bronxites when someone who supposedly represented them is convicted of a crime, especially if that crime directly violates the public's trust," he said.
So while Mr. Shellard may have seen a sad cat, rapt in the dispiriting milieu of this supposedly smelly café, everyone else may have seen a cat that was just sort of... there.
So while Mr Shellard may have seen a sad cat, rapt in the dispiriting milieu of this supposedly smelly café, everyone else may have seen a cat that was just sort of... sat there.
"I am very, very sad, and I feel sorry for the helpless citizens," Mubarak supposedly said.
